Operation Manual

MATRIX PATTERN SEQUENCER
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! Note that clearing a pattern doesn’t affect the pattern length, resolution
or shuffle settings!
Using Cut, Copy and Paste
By using the Cut, Copy and Paste Pattern commands on the Edit menu or device con-
text menu, you can move or duplicate patterns. The following rules apply:
D Copy Pattern makes a copy of the currently selected pattern and places
the copy on the clipboard.
D Cut Pattern moves the currently selected pattern to the clipboard.
This is the same as first performing Copy Pattern and then Clear Pattern.
D Paste Pattern copies the pattern on the clipboard to the selected pattern
location in the selected device.
This overwrites the selected pattern with the one on the clipboard.
Transferring patterns between Reason songs
If you want to copy patterns between different Reason songs, you use copy and
paste:
1. Open both songs.
2. Select the pattern you want to copy.
3. Select Copy Pattern from the Edit menu or the device context menu.
You can also hold [Command] (Mac) or [Ctrl] (Windows) and press [C] to copy.
4. Make the other song active.
This is done by clicking in the song window or by selecting the song from the Win-
dows menu.
5. Select the bank and pattern location to which you want to copy the pattern.
Note that any pattern already stored in that location will be overwritten!
6. Select Paste Pattern from the Edit menu or the device context menu.
You can also hold [Command] (Mac) or [Ctrl] (Windows) and press [V] to copy.
Tutorial
The programming procedure of the Matrix is to input note and gate values into the up-
per and lower fields of the pattern window respectively. You can input values by click-
ing or dragging in the pattern window. Proceed as follows:
1. Create a Subtractor synth.
You don’t have to use the Subtractor device to use the Matrix, in fact you don’t
have to use an instrument device at all, but for this basic tutorial we will use a
“standard” setup.
2. With the Subtractor selected, create a Matrix Pattern Sequencer.
The Matrix Note and Gate CV outputs will now be auto-routed to Subtractors Se-
quencer Control Gate and CV inputs, as you can see if you flip the rack around.
3. Make sure that the switch to the left of the pattern window is set to “Keys”
position.
As you can see, there are two rows of red rectangles. The one with horizontal rect-
angles at the bottom of the upper field in the pattern window represent note pitch,
for each step in a pattern. At the moment they are all set to the same note pitch.
The row of vertical rectangles in the lower field represent Gate velocity values -
currently these are all set to a velocity value of 100 for all steps.